It Will Rise Soon Enough

2030. A mother and her child tread water with a delivery person in a flooding Greenwich Village apartment during a category four hurricane. 2060. A group of rogue individuals struggle to find new identities and homes in the wreckage of once familiar landscapes. 2090. The firstborn of a self-governed settlement questions whether to follow his own will or the will of his people. It Will Rise Soon Enough is a cross...

2030. A mother and her child tread water with a delivery person in a flooding Greenwich Village apartment during a category four hurricane. 2060. A group of rogue individuals struggle to find new identities and homes in the wreckage of once familiar landscapes. 2090. The firstborn of a self-governed settlement questions whether to follow his own will or the will of his people. It Will Rise Soon Enough is a cross-generational work of speculative theatre that examines how we might be forced to rethink our relationships to labor and capital as it pertains to our identities as we face increasingly dramatic changes to our climate.

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It Will Rise Soon Enough

The play has twenty speaking characters which can be played by a minimum of eight actors. It can have an ensemble as well.

In the first production, the doubling went as follows:
Actor 1: Nymus, Matt
Actor 2: Jenn, Emma
Actor 3: Ocea, Evin, Citizen
Actor 4: Gum Gum, Naomi
Actor 5: Mim, Marta, Georgie
Actor 6: Pip, Wyatt, Evan
Actor 7: Amy, Bex, Citizen
Actor 8: Nathan, Christopher, Citizen